Monsey, NY – A Rockland group that caused a worldwide uproar when it purportedly put the pox on lox by claiming that the popular Jewish nosh isn’t kosher said yesterday that the warning was nothing but a fish tale.
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“Go ahead, eat lox,” said Yisroel Neiman, a member of Chevra Mehadrin, a Monsey organization that prepared a report on fish and Jewish law. “It’s kosher — I just had some.”
Neiman said he had no idea why the report was being interpreted to mean that salmon, the fish from which nova lox is made, violates Jewish dietary law.
“They made it up,” Neiman said, referring to media organizations who attributed the ban on lox to the report. “It’s a lie. We never said lox isn’t kosher.”
Didn’t we read here a couple of weeks ago that some Rabbonim determined that certain types of kosher fish were no longer kosher because of parasites? So can we eat this fish or not?
I was at the Skulener Rebbe’s tisch on Shabbes, and he was eating salmon. Then we all ate his sherayim.
I knew there was something fishy about this whole salmon ban. Narishkeit.
a Bande Meshugim. Aseren in Matir zein is one and the same
Re-read your headline–slowly.
Obviously, this Neiman character and his “Chevra Mehadrin” are the yiddeshe version of the “Chlem Fire Brigade” who first set a fire and then take credit for putting it out. He know over a week ago that his report was being interpreted as saying that Salmon is assur. Now after being shown to be an idiot by every Rav knowledgeable in hashgacha, he tries to say he was “misunderstood”. Too late, he and his associates have shown themselves to be the clowns of the year.
It was a Purim joke.
i remember that during medical school, our patholigist was intrigued by a large tape worm that he found in a jewish person . he reports that it came from gefilte fish.
Only wild salmon was forbidden originally, so if the Skulener was eating Salmon he may very well have been eating regular salmon!
I heard Rav Eliashiv agreed to the issur — anyone know anything abt this??
PEOPLE:
ask…your…Rav.
Don’t go by ANYTHING you read here.
Sheesh.
This chvreah mehadrin are a bunch of unemployed board people, I saw them poking around the fruit isle in a monsey kosher grocery looking for worms what a joke
No comments about the propriety of eating salmon (or lox) should be without a discussion of whether the salmon is wild salmon (the healthy kind) or farm-grown salmon (which contain PCB’s). What are PCB’s? Once again, the answer can be found in Google. The following comment is from HealthCastle.com. There are many other sources for this information.
David Suzuki Foundation: In January 2001, BBC News produced a program “Warnings from the Wild, The Price of Salmon.” The program cited a pilot study conducted by Dr. Easton with the David Suzuki Foundation. The study found that farmed salmon and the feed they were given appeared to have a much higher level of contamination with respect to PCBs, organo-chlorine pesticides, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers than did wild salmon. It concluded contamination in farm fish seems to come from the feed.
Solution: just ask the fish how he’s feeling. If he says “fine” then eat him.
According to EVERY major kashrus agency there is nothing wrong with the fish. Of course the media thinks we like lox. What a mishigas! Given the choice I think most shomray torah umitzvos would probably chose cholent, kugel etc., instead of lox (and I am the mashgiach at a few smoke houses!).
So this is good that Chevra Mehadrin banning lox was rumors?
But what about in Eretz Yisroel? Was the meeting between Moshe Karp of Modi’in Illit (despite the hoax-sounding name, he does exist, as he was quoted in Dei’ah v’Dibur’s archives in 2000, wrote a column in 2003, mentioned in Jerusalem Post in 2005) and was a major force behind the Internet ban there
It’s clear what happened: they started a rumor because they wanted a new chumra. Klal Yisrael rejected it, and now they want to pretend like they were not trying to start yet another chumra without any basis. If people would be this angry whenever some extremist wanted to choke us to death with chumras, we would not be living in our current world.
if one is worried about parasites, then one cannot eat any meat or fish every living things has parasites.
we have plenty ourselves
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these great rabbis like to make things not kosher
why don’t they say something about cigarettes being treif-they may save some lives
Everything is treif try fasting
Just a thought: How is it that the Chachmei haGemarah, who were infallible on matters of science, were unaware of the the “new” variety of parasites found in salmon?
The whole fish story is very fishy…
The only fish that’s assur is the talking fish in New Square because there’s a person inside.